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pobrecollie's avatar

"I suspect that masking patients and providers remains at least somewhat effective in reducing transmission of SARS-COV2. If you think there are adequate data to prove that statement false, please cite the high-quality evidence."

The onus should be one the person making the claim, not for others to disprove it, especially when it is as weak a claim as "I suspect".

We tried the masking nonsense for well over two years here in Spain, including outdoors and it made no perceivable difference.

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Charles Mccarville's avatar

This is an example of the ‘sunk cost fallacy’ as applied to beliefs. The author felt that based on his experience that masks were helpful in avoiding disease, and now finds it difficult to displace that belief in light of evidence to the contrary.

And the evidence is plain: they never helped, not even a little. The comparison with AIDS is an attempt to rationalize this belief, even though that was a 100% fatal disease transmitted through blood. It should have been known since March of 2020 that covid was about as fatal as the flu, thanks to John Ioannides, and that the risk was almost entirely with the very old and unhealthy.

Even after four years, this author is still saying masks did some good, at least a little...no, they didn’t.

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